http://www.srpmusicgroup.com/home daily 1.0 2013-01-30 http://www.srpmusicgroup.com/bio daily 0.75 2021-02-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1440737119988-6QRFQQ9IH2UL6HB04UJS/image-asset.jpeg Bio http://www.srpmusicgroup.com/gallery daily 0.75 2015-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202162731-3NFV4OV6PFJTSAD5ODWI/Britney+1.jpg Gallery - Evan, Britney, and Carl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202117759-T9HB7RNIB8LZW70XKPHD/Christina+18+2.jpg Gallery - Christina Aguilera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202149354-107P3ZMUR54YLQHAPEU8/Christina+18+1.jpg Gallery - Christina and Carl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202178367-BNYELJ5X66LU5BWRYGQQ/Nsync.jpg Gallery - 'N Sync with Carl and Evan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202199981-SKFTXQTRQ3QFFOJJJJH8/Paula.jpg Gallery - Evan, Paula Abdul, and Carl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202104705-R7Y55ARURJMWS12LL5JI/Emma+Bunton+1.jpg Gallery - Emma Bunton aka Baby Spice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202144697-OXJLLZYGHY07UKVDCD3C/Group+Koz+Luther.jpg Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202196503-T1SRVNHNGD49XAMLR08W/Martine+McKutcheon.jpg Gallery - Carl, Martine McKutcheon, and Evan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202306468-WFZ47K80G1ZUQM9RUGEY/Evan+Rod+Carl.jpg Gallery - Evan, Rod Stewart, and Carl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202128721-HS7Z54OON9AJR0L0WR2L/Al+Rod.jpg Gallery - Al Hemberger and Rod Stewart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202169675-24OHZ393ER3ZQK94MXAC/Ruben+1.jpg Gallery - Carl, Ruben Studdard, and Evan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202183723-Z4F26E1ZLMUEEKGISRYV/Koz+booth.jpg Gallery - Dave Koz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1443202213194-YPNEA9V3ROGNUAL6G9XP/C+E+Clive.jpg Gallery - Carl, Clive Davis, and Evan at Clive's Pre Grammy Party http://www.srpmusicgroup.com/artists daily 0.75 2025-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/c3cfa4c3-8bbd-41c8-a055-9277781ec601/_DSF0427.jpg Artists - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1701896471918-XKIDURLU9UD10CN2MXZB/Liana---Danita-Bethea-007.jpg Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1612893725103-EV6SL72JAUNR9YIT3C6I/Untitled-1.png Artists - Rihanna In 2004 Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken of SRP Music Group discovered and signed Rihanna at the age of 15. They spent a year developing her, bringing her back and forth from Barbados to their studio in Bronxville, NY. During this period Rihanna would reside at Rogers’ home in Stamford, CT with his wife who is also from Barbados. By early 2005 they felt she was ready and had come up with the “door opener” song “Pon De Replay,” and began to shop for the right record deal. After a legendary meeting with Def Jam Recordings where label president Jay Z and Island/Def Jam CEO LA Reid asked what they had to do for SRP to “cancel all other label meetings,” the deal was signed at 3 AM. What followed was a historic partnership between SRP, Rihanna, and Def Jam that spanned 7 albums and more than ten years. SRP would go on to co-executive produce each of these albums along with Jay Z, contributing songs, production, A&R, and career guidance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1701894886817-VJNUR2XNPFFCKCXJ3QP9/lilbaby-140.jpg Artists https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1594822388624-BWREKOQ9WFR1R9X0KO57/112419_KandaceSprings_2076_re+smaller.jpg Artists - Kandace Springs From the first second of Kandace Springs' new album — as those warm, hand-plucked bass notes fill the air — you know you've arrived at something different. And once she starts singing, well, it's pretty clear The Women Who Raised Me exists apart from the normal rules that govern space, time, and talent. While 2018's Indigo LP found the Nashville singer-pianist using modern production to bend sound into new genre forms in collaboration with Karriem Riggins, this set adheres sonically to jazz while Springs travels back and forth across a near-century of music. While the feel is as rich and complex as our host's voice, the concept is simple. Springs covers the women who inspired her while she was growing up, putting her own spin on songs associated with a dozen of the greatest female vocalists of all-time: Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, Astrud Gilberto, Lauryn Hill, Billie Holiday, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Carmen McRae, Bonnie Raitt, Sade, Nina Simone, and Dusty Springfield. "This is an album I've been wanting to make forever," says Springs. "It really expresses my love for all of these singers and gratitude for what they gave me. Each taught me something different and all of those lessons combined to make me who I am now. In a way, all I’m trying to do every day is live up to the examples they set. My dream is that people will listen to my album and then want to go learn more about all of these great women. If that happens, then I’ve done my job." Of course, you'll want to spend some quality time with The Women Who Raised Me first. While the project was personal — practically a calling — for Springs, it's also an intimate showcase for her abilities. Produced by Larry Klein — who also produced Springs’ 2016 album Soul Eyes — the album captures Springs in the studio with a spare but able band who all have ties to the artists honored here: guitarist Steve Cardenas (Norah Jones), bassist Scott Colley (Carmen McRae), and drummer Clarence Penn(Diana Krall). They played live, underscoring the power of Springs' voice and hands, as well as her gift for moving between singers' intonations and legacies while staying herself — as her heroines would want it. Heroes too. "Prince liked when I played all this stuff," Springs recalls. "He'd go, 'That's you right there." But long before the Minneapolis giant saw Springs on YouTube and invited her to jam at Paisley Park in 2014 — the year she'd sign to Blue Note with an audition of Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" (track six) — there was Norah. When Springs was a gifted preteen pianist with no plans to sing, her father, Nashville session singer Scat Springs, slid her a copy of Jones' Come Away With Me. She put the CD on while doing chores, and, "When 'The Nearness of You' came on I froze," Springs says. "I was like, 'That is what I want to do!'" So of course that song made it onto The Women Who Raised Me. But also, the actual Norah Jones did too. They trade smoke-ringed verses on Ella Fitzgerald's "Angel Eyes" as Jones' Steinway dances with Springs' Wurly. "I didn't even know what to think," says Springs of recording with her first musical love. Wildly, it only happened because they ran into each other at the Nashville airport. They traded numbers, and later met at Jones' Brooklyn apartment to test out Ella songs. "It's something I relive every so often, like, 'Lord, I can't believe she's sitting right there.' It was nerve-racking. I was like, 'Get it together, Kandace, let's do this!' And we just kinda made up the arrangement as we went." Jones isn't the only guest. It's Christian McBride's bass that kicks off the LP, in fact, on Springs' swinging cover of "Devil May Care" by Diana Krall. That one was also part of her dad's informal chops-building curriculum after he brought home a secondhand upright piano when she was 10. Springs was instantly drawn to Krall's elegant playing and unfussy singing. Scat turned her onto Nina Simone too, eventually. "I didn’t like her voice at first," Springs admits. "It seemed strange, but it was so unique and haunting that I kept coming back." Before long, she was as inspired by Nina's spirit as her art. In honor of their shared love for classical, Springs incorporates Moonlight Sonata into her rousing version of "I Put a Spell on You," as David Sanborn blows fiery alto sax. Of course, with an album called The Women Who Raised Me, we'd be remiss not to talk about Springs' mother, Kelly. While Dad arranged for her to learn from pros like the Wooten brothers, Mom actually drove young Kandace to and from those lessons in the family van while tuned into the local easy listening station. That's where she first heard Dusty Springfield (Springs' rendition of "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" is rich with heartache and drama) and, many times over, the aforementioned Bonnie Raitt hit. She learned the latter in her late teens, while she was working at a local hotel. "I'd park cars during the day," says Springs, "then change clothes, go upstairs to the lounge, and perform in the evening. I always got a lot of tips playing Bonnie." At that point, Springs' career was calling. She'd been offered a production deal by Evan Rogers and Carl Sturken of SRP (who discovered Rihanna), but Scat was wary. As Springs began to consider other paths, it was her mom who encouraged her not to quit music, and even snuck into Scat's phone to get Rogers' contact. That partnership brought Springs to New York and Blue Note, but before she left home, each of these women had shown her something vital: Astrud Gilberto with her "tone that's so airy and pure" ("Gentle Rain"). Carmen McRae, whose "sense of harmony is deeper than any other jazz singer's" ("Solitude"). Sade's uncanny ability to transmit powerful emotion ("Pearls"). Lauryn Hill's vocal textures and "diva queen" independence ("Ex-Factor"). But even as those mighty influences are felt — and players like trumpeter Avishai Cohen; flutist Elena Pinderhughes, and tenor saxophonist Chris Potter pop in — The Women Who Raised Me remains unmistakably Springs' vision. That fact becomes especially clear during closing couplet. First, Springs and her band strike up a mellow groove with their take on Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly." But as the song nears its end, we're treated to a gigantic unfurling psychedelic finale, which sets the stage for the next song's necessary minimalism. The closing number is one that truly cannot be followed: "Strange Fruit." For this, it's just Springs and her trusty Rhodes, crying out all of that pain and beauty, reminding us of the mortal danger inherent in forgetting our past. Springs learned much from Billie's example — "I grew up in the South and I can't even imagine the courage it took for her to sing that song in the '30s," she says — but her main takeaway is as basic as it is bone-deep: "That nothing is more important than singing from the heart." End of the day, that's exactly what Springs did here. The Women Who Raised Me is a raw and real audio love-letter between her and her idols. The rest of us are just lucky she let us listen in. http://www.srpmusicgroup.com/songwritersproducers daily 0.75 2017-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1442462958678-88U5QQGCQEC3CSPI4GPY/BAM+640.jpg Songwriters/Producers - Brandon "B.A.M." Alexander B.A.M. was our first signing to our publishing joint venture with UMPG. He earned a Grammy nomination for his work on Tyrese's 2011 album, Open Invitation. B.A.M. received a second Grammy nomination for producing the Chris Brown/Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Autumn Leaves". He reunited with Tyrese on the "Black Rose" album, producing 9 of 11 cuts that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart. And is currently back in the studio with Trey Songz, Chris Brown, and August Alsina. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55df8f5de4b0e7ba5dabb8f5/1497892597041-UM1UA1PKOLRMZ6ER8Z27/LOOTE_06-11+%28resized%29_PHOTO+CREDIT-+MEREDITH+TRUAX.jpg Songwriters/Producers - Loote According to New York-based pop duo Loote, the best way to describe their sound is by talking about ice cream. “We’re like a perfect chocolate-vanilla swirl soft serve cone,” says Emma Lov, who co-writes and shares vocals with Jackson Foote. “You throw in our specific interests and they work better together.”   Few pop groups would liken their synergy to a summer treat, but in Loote’s case the analogy works. Emma’s singer-songwriter background and Jackson’s production technique come together in fresh and unexpected ways—like two distinct flavors —making their tracks exceptional and, well, ice cream cool.   “What you’re hearing,” says Jackson Foote, “is a combination of two personalities and where they meet in the middle. We’re different in a lot of ways, and you can hear that in our music, but in a lot of ways we’re also very similar and you can pick up on that too.”   The result is a confident sound that’s sexy, energetic, and inspired by many of today’s trailblazing artists. It’s undoubtedly poppy, but there’s a sense of craftsmanship and attention to detail apparent in all of their tracks that sets them apart.   Their first single “High Without Your Love,” for example, is a stripped-down summer anthem. The minimal nature of Jackson’s expertly restrained production pushes the song’s intimacy to the forefront, allowing Emma’s growling vocals to shine. “It’s about that initial feeling of ‘I need you, I can’t get enough of you,” she says of the lyrics. It’s a sexy and catchy celebration of blinding infatuation; of the midpoint of being in love and being in lust. Jackson asserts the track was organic to write: “it took on a life of its own,” he says.   That organic quality is indicative of Jackson and Emma’s process more generally. The duo met in a college songwriting class when Emma was just a freshman. “It was totally random,” recalls Jackson. “We got paired together for a homework assignment and the chemistry just clicked. We immediately had a good work flow.”   They began writing songs together and quickly got a deal with Universal Music Publishing Group through a joint venture with SRP. From there, they immediately began working closely with other songwriters and artists in the New York music scene. “Working with other artists was eye-opening,” says Emma. “It accelerated our growth as writers and helped me work on my craft.”   After writing a handful of songs for other artists and producing remixes for Mike Posner, Shawn Mendes, and LANY tracks, to name a few, Jackson and Emma decided it was time to step out from behind the scenes. Now signed to iconic label Island Records, the vibrant and hard-working duo has a platform to share their collaborative efforts. They want their music to help people feel, whether it’s hyping someone up as they walk down the street or giving someone the confidence to make the first move.   “We talk about things you’re not supposed to talk about or don’t necessarily know how to articulate,” says Jackson.   “Music does that,” adds Emma. “It says what people can’t or don’t say.” http://www.srpmusicgroup.com/read-me-encore daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377710645188-W6F7VW5TN6XZ26N626WB/Darren+Bridgett+%2820130828%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377710441515-L3YD83X83ELBMUJHKA5F/The+Collective+Quarterly+%2820130828%29.jpg Read Me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/507c1fdb84ae362b5e7be351/1377787389525-6YIGWYZ7Y1R2VXYGXYWO/Olasky+%26+Sinsteden+%2820130829%29.jpg Read Me